Wanted level

A wanted level is a visual representation of the police attention towards the player. The more crimes the player commit in a row, the more police and other forms of law enforcement chase him.

GTA 3D

Chaos Level

The severity of each possible crime is measured in 'chaos points', which is added to the player's current chaos level, when the player commit a crime. Commiting crimes and gaining chaos points may result in one or more wanted level stars. Here's the table of correlation between the chaos level and wanted levels.

	Chaos points
Game \ Wanted Level	1	2	3	4	5	6
GTA III	40	200	400	800	1600	3200
Vice City	50	180	550	1200	2400	4800
San Andreas	50	180	550	1200	2400	4600

In GTA III and Vice City the chaos level is decreased by one per second if the wanted level is 0 or 1, and there is no police near the player in radius of 18 units.

Chaos Points

When the player commit a crime, his chaos level is increased by the number of points as described below. This number is multiplied by the wanted multiplier, which is equal to 1.0 by default. Setting it to another value will result in faster or slower attaining of the wanted stars.

Game	Crime Id	Crime Description	Chaos Points
	1		0
	2	Melee attacking a ped	5
	3		45
	4	Shooting a ped	30
	5		80
	6	Stealing a vehicle	15
	7		10
	8		5
	9		5
	10	Striking and killing a ped by a vehicle	18
	11		80
	12	Destroying a heli	400
	13	Burning a ped	20
	14		80
	15	Burning a vehicle	20
	16	Destroying a DeadDodo plane	500
			400
	17		25
	18		35
	19		100
	20		70
	21		2
	22		2
	-	Collecting a pac-man package	10

Some crimes raise the player's wanted level directly. Attacking or shooting a police vehicle results in a minumum wanted level of 1. Shooting a police officer results in a minumum wanted level of 2.

Mission Script

Game	Opcode	Description
	010D	alter wanted level
	010E	alter wanted level no drop
	010F	is wanted level greater
	0110	clear wanted level
	01C0	store wanted level
	01F0	set max wanted level
	03C7	set wanted multiplier
	050F	get max wanted level

External link

Wanted Level – at Grand Theft Wiki